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Emergence – still trendy after all these years

John Michael

pp. 169-180

Ever since the heyday of British Emergentism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (notwithstanding a relatively silent period for a few decades after British Emergentism fizzled out in the 1930s), discussions of emergence have been a fairly constant source of titillation as well as controversy and confusion. Different authors have used the terms "emergence" and "emergentism" to characterize a myriad related but distinct conceptions, spanning fields as various as physics, chemistry, biology, sociology, psychology, robotics and philosophy.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-3929-1_10

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Michael, J. (2012)., Emergence – still trendy after all these years, in R. Creath (ed.), Rudolf Carnap and the legacy of logical empiricism, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 169-180.

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